Bovate (Lat. bos, 'ox') or OXGANG, an old English land-measure; as much as an ox can plough in a season—an area varying according to circumstances from 8 to 18, or sometimes even 24 acres. It was the eighth of a carucate.
Bovate
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 371
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